Shrove Monday

This is little Petra with 3 1/3 years on Shrove Monday!

We lived in neighbourhood with a family with 4 children, who was very unusual. The father was gone, the mother was unemployed and the children were allowed to do so many things that are forbidden for us. It was just a paradise for us. I remember we jumped into the mother's bed from the top of the wardrobe! What fun.
On Shrove-Monday she gave a party for all the children who lived in the house, this was unusual too, because she had to move some of her furniture. She was crazy, but kind!



Obviously my little katimus as little red riding hood had not so much fun on her carnival-party in the kindergarten 1988. I guess she was afraid that someone would take her bottle of wine in her basket.

I stay at home this week, I have much trouble with my employers. They don't want to allow me to work less hours a week and ignore my medical attestations since month. So my doctor told me to stay at home for half the day, but they don't allow this because of the insurance - it is so very german!
The good news is, that I visited some more doctors because of my disorder with hearing and attention/concentration/perception and finally one of them had a diagnosis and medical treatment. I will try this, allthough it is not without risks.
Meanwhile I enjoy my childhood memories, my fat doll and I hope to be able to show you some more mini-scenes soon.
Have a great carnival you all!

Update: I found some more pics of carnival in my childhood: another party in the flat of our neighbours. the furniture of the kitchen was moved for us, so that we could enjoy our waffles all together.
when I grew older, I like to make up my face on karnival....

May I introduce: This is Fran - my new BBW-Doll!

see more on flickr

the hallway

little house

several weeks ago I made this little house - inspired by the houses of wesquatch -
I wasn't very content with it and wanted to start a new trial - but it is often only a dream that never come true.
Now Mini-Dorks last posting reminds me of this house and I decided to show it.

once again: a box for hannah!

Some of you will remember, that I made a box for my niece, when she started school.
This box is for a workmate who is a young mother now and her 2 days old baby's name is Hannah too.
Because of my experience with my first time making such a gift I chosed a much smaller box this time. The bedspread for the baby will be a bill. we all collected for our workmate. I think she will be happy at least with the money.

vintage wallpaper

with our swap bea sent me some vintage fabrics and today I used one of them as a wallpaper. I think I've never shown the two chairs before, they came with an ebay-find and I don't like them very much, but in this scene they are perfect.
hope you all enjoy and have a nice weekend!

polar bear

I found this little glass-polar bear yesterday - isn't it cute?


for the "behind the scenes"-lovers among us:

 

warm and cosy

Recently I saw one of these new ethanol-firesides you can use in a room without a real fireplace. I have to say that I like it. I made a scene including such an "ethanol fireside" in my estetisk box that has an opening in the ceiling to have time to make a warm and cosy scene, matching to my knitting-work on this cold evenings.
then it seems a bit too cosy and warm to me, a bit oldfashioned and I picked a few items that look more "flower-powerish".

For all of you that are interested: the first - biggest - blanket is with my wool for socks and german needlesize 2,5
The second is with crochet-yarn 1 - 1,25 and needles I made by myself (don't ask).
The third piece is the pillow you see in the first scene and the very gifted maggimini sent me the needles size 1 and the matching yarn, so thin like sewing-yarn. thank you, maggi! the more I knit the better it works even with the thin yarn.

rain and snow and rain and snow

Update: The sun said hello for a short while and I played around.....

In the last days the weather was really bad. After the snow comes the rain and after the rain the snow. So I was very happy, that on this saturday morning everything outside was white. I want to show you again the view of my window into the white "landscape". I never used the Eichhorn-house in this way, I had to put it on a small pillar (for flowerpots I think). There is a foto you can see it all on my windowsill.
I made a room for a single again, with bed and desk - sometimes I would like to have two rooms, one for a desk, one for a bed. On this bed you can see my second knitted blanket, it's more fun than the needlework-pillows, because it is finished in a rather short time.

miscellaneous

here are some fotographs I took in the last days when I was tired and wanted to relax.....

rocking horse

Beafordolls sent me this nice rocking horse (and other things:-) yesterday.

nothing new

Most of my scenes shows at least one new piece I bought. This is inspiring to use the furniture I have allready in a new way for me. But I want to stop buying new things for a while (and if possible - the Bozart-furniture doesn't belong to this decision) and so yesterday in the evening I tried to make a scene only with furniture and decoration items that are in my collection allready.
I played with the light and made some fotos of the scene this morning.


daylight in the morning

More from Annina (and from India)

Today I actually only want to show you one of the goodies Annina sent me with the chairs: A game I do not know till now.
But i like to put it on the tiny table and immediatly was in my childhood - all the men in my family love to play games. on every birthday-party they played "Skat" on a table in the bedroom, that was put into the bedroom only for this day. My grandfather was smoking his cigar, they all drank a lot of bear and "Schnaps", but they was able to count for the game the whole time.

But of course there was no modern designer furniture like this in my grandparents flat ;-)

PS: The postcard on the wall arrived this week from india, where friends of mine (the man born in india) with their small children stay for the winter....